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GYAROS (Island) KYKLADES
Gyaros or Gyara (Guaros, Strab., Steph. B.; Gyarus, Tac.; ta Guara,
Arrian, Diss. iv. 4; Gyara, Juv., Plin.: Eth. Guareus), a small island in the
Aegaean sea, reckoned one of the Cyclades, and situated SW. of Andros. According
to Pliny, it was 62 (Roman) from Andros and 12 miles in circumference. (Plin.
iv. 12. s. 23.) It was little better than a barren rock, though inhabited in antiquity.
It was one of the few spots in Greece visited by Strabo, who relates that he landed
in the island and saw there a little village inhabited by fishermen, who deputed
one of their number to go to Augustus, then at Corinth after the battle of Actium,
to beg him to reduce their yearly tribute of 150 drachmae, since they could scarcely
pay one hundred. (Strab. x. p. 485.) So notorious was it for its poverty that
it was said, in joke, that the mice in this island gnawed through iron. (Antig.
Carys. 21; Plin. viii. 43. s. 82; Steph. B. s. v. Gnaros). Under the Roman empire
it was used as a place of banishment, and was one of the most dreaded spots employed
for that purpose:
Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum. (Juv. i. 73; comp. Tac.
Ann. iii. 68, 69, iv. 30; Plut. de Exsil. 8.)
Among others, the philosopher Musonius was banished to Gyaros, in
the reign of Nero. (Philostr. Vit. Apoll. vii. 16.) In the time of the Antonines
a purple fishery was carried on here by divers. (Lucian, Toxar. 18.) The island
is now uninhabited, except in the summer time by a few shepherds who take care
of the flocks sent there by some of the inhabitants of Syros, to whom the island
now belongs. It is called ta Gioura,, pronounced Jura. (Tournefort, Voyage, &c.
vol. i. p. 263, Engl. Transl.; Ross, Reisen auf den Griech. Inseln, vol. i. p.
5, vol. ii. p. 170, seq.; Fiedler, Reise durch Griechenland, vol. ii. p. 158,
seq.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
(Guaros). A small island of the Archipelago, classed by Stephanus of Byzantium among the Sporades, but belonging rather to the Cyclades. It lay southwest of Andros, off the coast of Attica. So wretched and poor was this barren rock, being inhabited only by a few fishermen, that they deputed one of their number to wait upon Augustus, then at Corinth, after the battle of Actium, to petition that their taxes, which amounted to 150 drachmae (about $25), might be diminished, as they were unable to raise more than 100. This island became subsequently notorious, as the spot to which criminals or suspected persons were banished by order of the Roman emperors. The modern name is Chioura.
This text is cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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